Plan shop floor production proactively, with continual review and update based on changing realities.
Initiate
Tailorable to the particulars of a company’s scheduling environment.
Generation of automatic schedules by plant, customer, product family, or workcenter.
Initial schedule outlay based on standard set up and piece rates, outplant lead times, and inter-operation buffer times.
Ability to drive plant scheduling by prioritized criteria, including common setups, customer preferences, employee and workcenter capacity.
Automated workflows with ability to establish production commitment dates based on lead times and capacity before confirming to customers.
Progress
Interactive scheduling dashboard that generates planned orders, factoring current inventory, stocking requirements, delivery requirements, order policies, and production in flight. Instant visualization to production needs by line item with proposed planned order insertion.
Continued alerts to customer order changes (pull ins, quantity changes, drop ins, cancellations), with the ability to layer those into the schedule.
Interactive shop floor release management from the scheduling window.
Movement of production orders to available workcenters.
Near term look at planned overproduction and shortages based on committed ship dates.
Ongoing access to loads and past due by workcenter and department.
Deliver
Production dashboard drag and drop by plant supervisors.
Display of schedules on plant floor dashboards for clocking by employees.
Integrated schedule deliveries via emails or software folders.
Generation of Excel schedules, as an option, with upload back into the software based on scheduler changes.
Full plant visual of planned production by department with visual drill into each workcenter.
